Most Nations Will Fail To Meet UN Target on Chronic Diseases: Research Study

More than half of all countries will fail to meet the UN target of reducing premature deaths from chronic diseases by a third before 2030, researchers said on Friday.

According to their research, only in 2016 12.5 million people aged between 30 and 70 died of cancer, heart, and blood vessel disease, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease.

“A set of commitments were made, and most countries are not going to meet them,” The main researcher Majid Ezzati, a professor at Imperial School London’s School of Public Health, told AFP.

Only 35 countries are on their way to meet UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.4 — launched in 2015 — for women, and even less for men, the study revealed.

The study also mentioned that the International donors and national governments are doing very little to reduce deaths from non-communicable diseases.

Ezzati, however, mentioned that the most countries are at least working in the right direction which is a good news.

Surprisingly The United States of America was also among the list of countries which are not likely to meet the criteria.

The researchers also quoted a research from last year published in the American Journal of Public Health which shows that the rise in premature deaths was particularly common among white, rural Americans.